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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Humans behave better when they’re being watched (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 week ago by francois@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”

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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

+1. Underrated point. We all need the freedom to make mistakes and learn and grow from them.

On top of this, now we can search through someone's entire life for the worst thing they ever did or said. To use that against them. Maybe they run for political office. Maybe it's to blackmail them for profit or for espionage. Maybe to get back at htem over a slight.

This is why autocrats and tyrannical governments love surveilence. Because it gives them power over those they surveil.